Molokaʻi is known as the island of Hina, Molokaʻi nui a Hina, Hina the akua of the moon and of the lunar energy has many kinolau or body forms, such as plant, fish and even elemental forms like winds, rains and clouds. On Molokaiʻs east side sits the land known for her cloud, rain and wind forms. One of Hina's forms appears as a pillar cloud called Mukumuku forming right over this certain pohaku called Pohakupoi, which lies in the sea on the shore line at the point of Puupoi. Within this cloud form, her rains soon fall upon the land. Her raindrops are unusually large and heavy in size. When the wahine who are beating their kapa see her cloud forming at the shore of Puupoi, they make ready and bring out their kapa spreading it open for the rains of Hina to fall upon it and themselves. This ua or rain was called Kaulukukuiohina and it gave the kapa a fragrant smell. This kapa now wet, with its scent embedded within its fibers was called Hoʻopēahina. Along the coast near the cliffs is the ridge Paohiki, where the cave of Hina is present. In this cave sits her wind gourd, called Wawahonuaaho. This ipu makani is a long ipu with a top similar to the heke gourd of hula traditions. This heke is not tall like the heke in haa, but short and flat in shape. In this gourd contains three wild winds of Hina. Each unique wind is released by opening the heke of the ipu in a certain way. The first method to release the wind called Ilinahu wasto slightly crack open the lid of Wawahonuaaho. The second wind was released by opening the top juat a little more.The last wind called Luluku is the wind that will destroy all life. The entire top of the heke was removed. It was said this last makani Luluku was only unleashed once in ancient history.
ʻO ka uhaloa ko uka, ʻo ka hinalea ko kai
He mau kinolau hoʻi a Hinahanaikamalama
ʻŌʻili mai lā ka ao Mukumuku o Hina
ʻIke ʻia he ao kūkulu ma o Puupoʻi
Haa mai o Pōhakupoʻi ma kai kai
He pōhaku no ke kapukai a Lanikaula
Heleleʻi ka ua o Kaulukukuiohina
Ka ua pakapaka he nui
Hoʻopē ʻia ke kapa, e Hina
Ke kapa ihi, ʻo Hoʻopēahina
ʻAuwana i Paʻohiki ma ka lihi pali
Aia ke ana, ke ana o Hina
Hiʻipoi ʻia na ipu loloha a Hina
ʻO Wawāhonuaaho, ka ipu makani
Nā makani ʻāhiu o Hina
Weke liʻiliʻi ka poʻi pālahalaha,
Ua puka mai ʻo Ilinahu
Holo mai ka uka o Kamakou a i kai
Nui ka ua, ola ke kanaka
Weke hou mai ka poʻi o Wawāhonua
Puka mai ʻo Uluhewa, mai Pailolo a i uka
Piʻi ka nalu, luku ka ʻāina i ka makani, ola ke kanaka
Ke kolu o Luluku ka makani ahiu, lawe i ke ola a ke kanaka
Wehe mai ke poʻi mai luna aʻe
Hiki mai ke kolu, ʻo Luluku
Luku ka ʻāina, lawe i ke ola
Nā makani ʻĀhiu o Hiina
The uhaloa is of the land, the hinalea is of the sea
Body forms of Hinahanaikamalama
The Mukumuku cloud of Hina appears
A pillar cloud seen at the point of Puʻupoʻi
Pohakupoʻi sits low, seaward of Puʻupoʻi
It is a stone where kapukai was done by Lanikaula
Fall, the rain Kaulukukuiohina
The large drops are dense
The kapa scented by the rain drops
The sacred kapa Hoʻopēahina
Journey to Paʻohiki at the edge of the cliff
There is the cave, the cave of Hina
Cherished is the loloha gourd of Hina
Wawāhonua is the wind gourd
The untamed winds of Hina
Crack open the flattened cover,
Races out the Ilinahu wind
It runs from Kamakou down
There is much rain, man lives
Open the cover of Wawāhonua
Emerges Uluhewa
From Pailolo up to the land it runs
The waves grow large, land is ravaged, man lives
Take off the cover
Arrives the third wind, Luluku,
The land is destroyed, life is taken
The wild winds of Hina
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